Yet Another Digital Tradition Page

Here's yet another index of the
Digital Tradition Folk Music Database;
you can read about the Digital Tradition at their main site at
Mudcat.
This version differs in that songs which have tunes
have those tunes available as GIFs or PostScript scores. This version is
currently using the Spring '02 version of the database.

Anyway, this is a copy of the Digital Tradition database of folk songs and
I'm letting you search it. You can enter some text here and any songs with
matching words will be displayed.

This site is completely unsupported. I maintain it for my private use; it is
only publically available because it is easy to do so. You can try to
contact me,
but I can't promise an answer.

Scores may be slow downloading, as only a few are cached; the rest are
created on demand.

The GIF scores are fairly low resolution; they're about good enough to read
the music and lyrics. The PostScript is of much higher quality.

The scores are generated by a program which reads the SongWright
format and converts it into a format usable by PMW, a utility
for typesetting music. (last I looked, PMW was available
here).
PMW also generates MIDI files, though I'm not perfectly happy with the
result. The code I generate here works with PMW version 4.06, but should
behave with other versions.
(sorry, Lilypond is no longer supported)

Many people are only interested in songs that have tunes. Here's the
alphabetical listing of only those songs which have tunes available: